[The Character of Mr. Johnson]—[The Radical Nature of Johnson's First Views on Reconstruction]—[The Retention of Lincoln's Cabinet by Mr. Johnson and the Modification of Johnson's Views by Mr. Seward's Arguments]—[Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation of May 29th, 1865]—[The Excepted Classes]—[The Effect of these Exceptions]—[The President's Plan]—[The Realization of it—The Administering of the Oath]—[Reconstruction in North Carolina]—[The Identity of Johnson's Plan with that of Lincoln]—[Reconstruction in Mississippi—Reconstruction in Georgia—Reconstruction in Alabama, South Carolina and Florida]—[Reconstruction in Virginia]—[Reconstruction in Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee]—[The Constitutional Conventions of 1865]—[The Form of the Work Done in these Conventions, and its Substance]—[The Erection of "State" Governments and the Election of Members of Congress]—[The Orders of the President Putting the Civil Government of the United States into Operation Everywhere]—[The President's First Annual Message].
Mr. Johnson was a man who rose from very low estate through his own efforts. He was a man of considerable intellectual power and of great
The character
of Mr. Johnson.
With such a history behind him, and such a disposition impelling him, it is not to be wondered at that his policy in regard to Reconstruction
The radical
nature of Johnson's
first views on
Reconstruction.
Mr. Johnson retained Lincoln's Cabinet, and among them the conciliatory and persuasive Seward, who, in about six weeks from the night of the
The retention of
Lincoln's Cabinet
by Mr. Johnson, and
the modification
of Johnson's views
by Mr. Seward's
arguments.